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133219074 | Abolitionism | Antislavery movement. | 0 | |
133219075 | Ancien Regime | The traditional political and social order in Europe before the French Revolution. | 1 | |
133219076 | Bourgeoisie | Middle class in modern industrial society. | 2 | |
133219077 | Congress of Vienna | The peace conference held between 1814 and 1815 in Vienna after the defeat of Napoleon. | 3 | |
133219078 | Constitutionalism | Movement in England in the seventeenth century that placed power in Parliament's hands as part of a constitutional monarchy and that increasingly limited the power of the monarch; the movement was highlighted by the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution. | 4 | |
133219079 | Declaration of Independence | Written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776; the document expressed the ideas of John Locke and the Enlightenment, represented the idealism of the American rebels, and influenced other revolutions. | 5 | |
133219080 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | France's revolutionary 1789 declaration of rights stressing liberty, equality, and fraternity. | 6 | |
133219081 | Emancipation Proclamation | Speech by President Lincoln in 1863 that made the abolition of slavery a goal of the Civil War. | 7 | |
133219082 | Jacobins | A radical political organization or club during the French Revolution. | 8 | |
133219083 | Law Code of 1649 | Code enacted by Catharine II placing Russian serfs under the tight control of landlords. | 9 | |
133219084 | Liberalism | A nineteenth- and twentieth-century ideology supporting individualism, political freedom, constitutional government, and (in the nineteenth century) laissez-faire economic policies. | 10 | |
133219085 | Manifest Destiny | Belief that the United States' destiny was to expand from coast-to-coast. | 11 | |
133219086 | Maroons | Runaway African slaves. | 12 | |
133219087 | National Assembly | Representatives of the Third Estate who wrote the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen" and was replaced by the Convention in 1791. | 13 | |
133219088 | Peninsulares | Latin American officials from Spain or Portugal. | 14 | |
133219089 | The Directory | The conservative reaction to the Convention that penned a new French constitution and executed Jacobin leader Robespierre in 1794. | 15 | |
133219090 | Volksgeist | "People's spirit," a term that was coined by the German philosopher Herder; a nation's volksgeist would not come to maturity unless people studied their own unique culture and traditions. | 16 | |
133219091 | Zionism | Jewish nationalism in response to European anti-Semitism. | 17 |